If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines answer now:
Crisis numbers in Thailand
- 1323 – Department of Mental Health hotline: Tel: 1323
- In an emergency: Tel: 1669
- Samaritans of Thailand: Tel: 02-113-6789 (press 1; press 2 for the English line)
- Samaritans Thailand: Tel: 02-113-6789
- All crisis lines in Thailand
The list includes counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists.
At a glance
- Who they work with
- Children, Adolescents, Adults, Couples, Families, All ages, Organisations.
- Languages
- English 95%, Thai 27%, French 14%, Hindi/Urdu 14%, Mandarin 14%.
Most of the practitioners listed here work in one city, and the grid below shows which. If that is where you are, start there. If it is not, the summary above sets out what the country's practitioners offer. You can also filter for practitioners who work by video.
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Who is allowed to practise
Thailand licenses its doctors through the Medical Council of Thailand, the national body that oversees every medical practitioner in the country, psychiatrists among them, and holds them to its professional and ethical standards. Its licences are issued as temporary or permanent.
What the council's list confirms is a doctor's medical standing, so it answers for a psychiatrist and not for every therapist title you may meet on a Thai listing. You can check a doctor's licence with the Medical Council of Thailand.
Under the Healing Arts Practices Act B.E. 2542 (1999) a clinical psychologist, นักจิตวิทยาคลินิก, holds a healing arts licence, not the medical licence a psychiatrist holds. Section 5 lists the licensed branches, and no counsellor or therapist title is among them.
Therapists by profession and city
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)